Born from grief.
Grown through meaning.
Always With Me Glass began with loss.
Our founder, Linda Harman, fell in love with glass as a young girl and began working with a torch at fifteen. Her father bought her first torch just as his health began to decline, and for years she balanced learning her craft with helping care for him through high school and beyond.
At nineteen, encouraged by her father, Linda traveled to a historic glass school in Southern Germany to deepen her training. But at twenty, she made the difficult decision to return home to care for him in his final months. He passed away shortly after.
The opportunities she had left behind in Germany were gone. But her love for glass never left her.
In time, Linda created her first memorial glass piece using her father’s cremains. The peace she felt from carrying a physical reminder of someone she loved revealed something unexpected: grief changes shape, but connection endures. That small act of preservation brought comfort in a way words could not.
What began as a deeply personal response to loss slowly became a way to help others navigate their own grief. Always With Me Glass was born from the belief that meaningful materials, a flower, a handwritten note, cremains, a lock of hair, a treasured fabric, could become vessels for remembrance and healing.
But over time, something else became clear.
The same truth that matters in grief matters in celebration.
The flowers from a wedding bouquet. A handwritten promise. A graduation reflection. A message to a future self. A reminder carried into a new chapter. The moments that shape us are not only the ones we mourn. They are also the ones we celebrate, commit to, grow through, and carry forward.
Today, Always With Me Glass helps people preserve life’s meaningful moments through handcrafted glass keepsakes created from sentimental materials and personal reflections.
We begin from a simple belief:
Meaning comes first.
In a world filled with disposable personalization and objects asking us to invent significance after purchase, we choose the opposite direction.
What matters already matters.
Our role is simply to help give it form.
Begin with meaning. Give it form. Preserve it forever.